Macra anniversary

This is an incredible achievement by an organisation that has a network of clubs all over the country and a membership of 8,000 young people aged between 17 and 35. The first Macra headquarters was located at the Town Hall in Athy, and it was opened by the then president of Ireland, Sean T O’Kelly in September 1944.
Originally known as Macra Na Feirme, meaning ’stalwarts of the land’, it was founded by 12 agricultural advisors, spearheaded by Stephen Cullinane, who went on to be the organisation’s first general secretary and founding editor of the Irish Farmers Journal. Over 250,000 young people are estimated to have passed through Macra over the years, many going on to contribute to Irish agriculture in various ways in the eight decades since 1944. We wish Macra continued success.